Sayadaw U Jagara's Dharma Talks
    
    
              
              
 
            
    
        Sayadaw U Jagara  
 
    
        
                            
      Born in Canada, Sayadaw U Jagara, originally named Martin Boisvert, embarked on his spiritual journey in the mid-1970s under the guidance of Robert H. Hover. In 1979 he received ordination as a monk from the Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw in Burma. For the next 15 years, he resided in Sri Lanka, where he blended the practice of meditation with the study of Buddhist scriptures. He also made intermittent trips to India and Thailand for meditation retreats. During the 1980s, he assumed the role of a meditation guide, conducting retreats in the tradition of S.N. Goenka across India, North America, Europe, and Asia. In 1995, he began training under the esteemed Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw, a revered Burmese meditation master known for his commitment to the Visuddhimagga. This text serves as both a practical roadmap to deep states of meditation (jhāna) and a meticulous guide to the direct analytical approaches of vipassanā. Sayadaw U Jagara began assisting Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw in teaching the dhamma in the early 2000s and sustained his support up to the early 2010s. In the past decade, he has independently shared his wisdom and experiences across North America, collaborating with various meditation teachers. His teachings focus on life as continuous meditation, guiding students toward liberation through observation, wisdom, and compassion.
        
    
      
 
    
        
            
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        2011-08-13
            "Catch The Mind" 
    
        2011-10-08
            "Face The Will" 
    
        2008-10-04
            "Mickey Mouse" with Q&A - part 1 
    
        2008-10-04
            "Mickey Mouse" with Q&A - part 2 
    
        2020-01-13
            "What Is Meditation" 
    
        2017-03-01
            All Handouts from Retreat - pdf file attached 
    
        2011-09-03
            Altitude / Perspective 
    
        2015-03-06
            Approach to Meditation seen From Danta Bhumi Sutta, MN: 125 
    
        2016-06-15
            Approaches to meditation 
    
        2016-06-17
            Attempt to describe reality 
    
        2011-09-10
            Attitude/Perspective 
    
        2025-07-21
            Back from Space 
    
        2017-03-27
            Balancing the practice 
    
        2025-07-12
            Be an Island for yourself 
    
        2025-07-14
            Body-directed mindfulness 
    
        2011-10-15
            Brief Explanation of the 24 Paccaya (causal relationship) 
    
        2011-07-02
            Brief Introduction 
    
        2021-04-10
            Care, love and development 
    
        2011-10-17
            Causal Relationship - continued 
    
        2018-06-21
            Chant de metta 
    
        2019-06-21
            Chant de metta 
    
        2017-03-04
            Clear Comprehension and Working with Thoughts 
    
        2022-12-09
            Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2017-03-30
            Commitment to Awakening
 
    
        2018-06-29
            Conclusion de la retraite 
    
        2011-08-06
            Cross The Atlantic 
    
        2011-10-29
            Crossing The Flood Like A Polynesia Seafaring Canoe 
    
        2017-05-24
            Day 2: Instructions and Sitting: Approaches to Our Meditation (Retreat at Spiri… 
    
        2017-05-24
            Day 2: Metta sit with Guidance: Related to Examining Reality (Retreat at Spirit… 
    
        2017-05-26
            Day 4: Instructions: : "Love God, no Needs" (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2017-05-26
            Day 4: Metta Sit with Guidance (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2017-05-28
            Day 6 Metta Sit: (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2017-05-28
            Day 6 Morning Instructions: SN: "The Lump of Foam" and the 5 aggregates as bubb… 
    
        2011-12-10
            Deep Happiness by Venerable U Jagara and Shaila Catherine  
    
        2011-12-10
            Deep Happiness by Venerable U Jagara and Shaila Catherine  
    
        2011-12-10
            Deep Happiness by Venerable U Jagara and Shaila Catherine - Guided Meditation o… 
    
        2011-08-27
            Different different types of sensations that arise in the body  
    
        2020-05-10
            Dimanche 10 mai 2020 
    
        2020-04-12
            Dimanche 12 avril 2020 
    
        2020-06-14
            Dimanche 14 juin 2020 
    
        2020-05-17
            Dimanche 17 mai 2020 
    
        2020-04-19
            Dimanche 19 avril 2020 
    
        2020-05-24
            Dimanche 24 mai 2020 
    
        2020-04-26
            Dimanche 26 avril 2020 
    
        2020-05-03
            Dimanche 3 mai 2020 
    
        2020-05-31
            Dimanche 31 mai 2020 
    
        2020-04-05
            Dimanche 5 avril 2020 
    
        2020-06-07
            Dimanche 7 juin 2020 
    
        2008-10-11
            Do It Now 
    
        2025-07-18
            Elephant's Training 
    
        2011-10-22
            Emptiness / Sunnata 
    
        2008-09-06
            Four Elements with Q&A 
    
        2008-09-13
            Four Elements with Q&A 
    
        2017-05-25
            From "Let Go" to "Let's Go": Provided we know where we are (Retreat at Spirit R… 
    
        2025-07-25
            From Patience to Equanimity 
    
        2015-03-02
            General Introduction 
    
        2011-07-16
            Good Friendship and How To Calm Down The Thinking Mind.  
    
        2025-07-07
            GPS Meditation 
    
        2011-07-09
            Gradual Training 
    
        2025-07-09
            Guarding the mind 
    
        2017-03-26
            Guided Meditation on the Body 
    
        2015-03-13
            How New Discoveries Are Made 
    
        2020-01-06
            How Turtles Find Their Way Back Home 
    
        2008-10-18
            Independence And Freedom, Q&A - part 1 
    
        2008-11-18
            Independence And Freedom, Q&A - part 2 
    
        2018-06-22
            Instructions de méditation 
    
        2018-06-23
            Instructions de méditation 
    
        2018-06-24
            Instructions de méditation 
    
        2018-06-25
            Instructions de méditation 
    
        2018-06-26
            Instructions de méditation 
    
        2018-06-27
            Instructions de méditation 
    
        2018-06-28
            Instructions de méditation 
    
        2018-06-29
            Instructions de méditation 
    
        2019-06-28
            Instructions de méditation 
    
        2019-06-22
            Instructions de méditation 
    
        2019-06-23
            Instructions de méditation 
    
        2019-06-24
            Instructions de méditation 
    
        2019-06-25
            Instructions de méditation 
    
        2019-06-26
            Instructions de méditation 
    
        2019-06-27
            Instructions de méditation 
    
        2019-06-29
            Instructions de méditation 
    
        2019-06-30
            Instructions de méditation 
    
        2019-07-01
            Instructions de méditation 
    
        2019-07-02
            Instructions de méditation 
    
        2019-07-03
            Instructions de méditation 
    
        2019-07-04
            Instructions de méditation 
    
        2019-07-05
            Instructions de méditation 
    
        2018-06-21
            Introduction à la retraite 
    
        2017-03-02
            Introduction to the Gradual Training 
    
        2008-08-30
            Jhana Skills with Q&A #1 
    
        2008-08-30
            Jhana Skills with Q&A #2 
    
        2008-07-26
            Knowledge with Q&A - part 1 
    
        2008-07-26
            Knowledge with Q&A - part 2 
    
        2017-03-20
            Listening to the Mind 
    
        2025-07-30
            Loving Kindness Reflection 
    
        2015-03-10
            Medicine, Diet and the Five Hinderances 
    
        2019-06-22
            Méditation de metta 
    
        2019-06-23
            Méditation de metta 
    
        2019-06-24
            Méditation de metta 
    
        2019-06-25
            Méditation de metta 
    
        2019-06-26
            Méditation de metta 
    
        2019-06-27
            Méditation de metta 
    
        2019-06-28
            Méditation de metta 
    
        2019-06-29
            Méditation de metta 
    
        2019-06-30
            Méditation de metta 
    
        2019-07-01
            Méditation de metta 
    
        2019-07-02
            Méditation de metta 
    
        2019-07-03
            Méditation de metta 
    
        2019-07-04
            Méditation de metta 
    
        2016-06-18
            Meditation instructions on Metta 
    
        2017-03-08
            Meditation Overview 
    
        2008-09-20
            Meditation Practice Annd Q&A - part 1 
    
        2008-09-20
            Meditation Practice with Q&A 
    
        2018-06-22
            Méditation sur les brahmavihara 
    
        2018-06-23
            Méditation sur les brahmavihara 
    
        2018-06-24
            Méditation sur les brahmavihara 
    
        2018-06-25
            Méditation sur les brahmavihara 
    
        2018-06-26
            Méditation sur les brahmavihara 
    
        2018-06-27
            Méditation sur les brahmavihara 
    
        2018-06-28
            Méditation sur les brahmavihara 
    
        2020-01-08
            Metta and the Seven Enlightenment Factors 
    
        2017-03-03
            Mindfulness and Clear Comprehension - Mode 2 
    
        2022-12-08
            Mindfulness of Death Q/A Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2020-01-07
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2020-01-09
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2018-07-13
            Morning Instructions - Body Scan 
    
        2020-01-21
            Morning Instructions. 
    
        2020-01-28
            Morning Meditation Instructions 
    
        2018-07-14
            Morning Refelctions 
    
        2018-07-12
            Morning Reflection 
    
        2018-07-19
            Morning Reflection 
    
        2018-07-20
            Morning Reflection 
    
        2018-07-21
            Morning Reflection - Meditation on the Four Elements 
    
        2020-01-14
            Morning Reflections 
    
        2020-01-25
            Morning Reflections 
    
        2023-07-12
            Morning Reflections #10: Sukka (Step 6) 
    
        2023-07-14
            Morning Reflections #12: The Four Elements 
    
        2023-07-17
            Morning Reflections #14: Steps 9 & 10 
    
        2023-07-19
            Morning Reflections #16: Concentrating the Mind (Step 11) 
    
        2023-07-21
            Morning Reflections #18: Liberating the Mind (Step 12) 
    
        2023-07-22
            Morning Reflections #19: Meditation Subjects for Rahula 
    
        2023-07-03
            Morning Reflections #2 
    
        2023-07-25
            Morning Reflections #21: Fading Away (Step 14) 
    
        2023-07-27
            Morning Reflections #23: Being Here Like a Mountain 
    
        2023-07-29
            Morning Reflections #25 
    
        2023-07-31
            Morning Reflections #26: Sharing of Merit 
    
        2023-07-05
            Morning Reflections #4 
    
        2023-07-07
            Morning Reflections #6: Similes, the nimitta, rama rupa 
    
        2023-07-10
            Morning Reflections #8: Calming Bodily Formations (Step 4) 
    
        2022-12-04
            Morning Sit with Instructions: Embodiment and Aliveness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2022-12-06
            Morning Sit: On Your Dying Bed (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2017-03-22
            No Title 
    
        2017-03-28
            No Title 
    
        2015-03-01
            Notes and Transcripts from Retreat - pdf file attached 
    
        2016-06-14
            Notes and Transcripts from Retreat - pdf file attached 
    
        2018-07-13
            Object + Objective 
    
        2017-03-13
            Object and Objective 
    
        2017-03-16
            Observation and Adjustment 
    
        2022-12-03
            Opening Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2011-07-30
            Orientation Of Purpose 
    
        2017-03-15
            Pana - Wisdom 
    
        2017-05-27
            Perception as Conditioned and as Conditionee (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2011-08-20
            Planes of Existence. How do we see the universe - Why we are here?    
    
        2017-03-05
            Possibilities for Practicing Metta 
    
        2018-07-02
            Practical Causality: Seeing Causes and Conditions Intimately. 
    
        2008-08-23
            Practice And Theory with Q&A - part 1 
    
        2008-08-23
            Practice And Theory with Q&A - part 2 
    
        2018-06-22
            Propos sur le dhamma 
    
        2018-06-23
            Propos sur le dhamma 
    
        2018-06-24
            Propos sur le dhamma 
    
        2018-06-25
            Propos sur le dhamma 
    
        2018-06-26
            Propos sur le dhamma 
    
        2018-06-27
            Propos sur le dhamma 
    
        2018-06-28
            Propos sur le dhamma 
    
        2019-06-22
            Propos sur le dharma 
    
        2019-06-23
            Propos sur le dharma 
    
        2019-06-24
            Propos sur le dharma 
    
        2019-06-25
            Propos sur le dharma 
    
        2019-06-26
            Propos sur le dharma 
    
        2019-06-27
            Propos sur le dharma 
    
        2019-06-29
            Propos sur le dharma 
    
        2019-06-30
            Propos sur le dharma 
    
        2019-07-01
            Propos sur le dharma 
    
        2019-07-02
            Propos sur le dharma 
    
        2019-07-04
            Propos sur le dharma 
    
        2011-07-23
            Purpose, goal and how to balance the practice.  
    
        2017-03-26
            Q & A 
    
        2018-07-11
            Q/A Session 
    
        2015-03-04
            Q&A  
    
        2017-03-15
            Q&A 
    
        2017-03-29
            Q&A 
    
        2020-01-24
            Q&A 
    
        2011-08-31
            Questions & Answers  
    
        2011-09-07
            Questions & Answers 
    
        2011-07-13
            Questions And Answers 
    
        2011-07-20
            Questions and Answers 
    
        2011-07-27
            Questions and Answers 
    
        2011-08-03
            Questions and Answers 
    
        2011-08-10
            Questions and Answers 
    
        2011-08-17
            Questions and Answers 
    
        2011-08-24
            Questions and Answers 
    
        2011-09-14
            Questions and Answers 
    
        2011-09-21
            Questions and Answers 
    
        2011-09-28
            Questions and Answers 
    
        2011-10-05
            Questions and Answers 
    
        2011-10-12
            Questions And Answers 
    
        2011-10-19
            Questions And Answers 
    
        2011-10-26
            Questions And Answers 
    
        2019-06-22
            Questions et réponses 
    
        2019-06-23
            Questions et réponses 
    
        2017-03-21
            Rahulovada Sutta and the Simile of the Ocean 
    
        2011-09-17
            Reading of a Sutta on the elements and questions and answers 
    
        2017-05-23
            Realities and How We Come to See Them (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2008-07-19
            Refining The Mind 
    
        2024-07-26
            Reflections: All the 7 Bojjhangas in one moment 
    
        2025-07-28
            Samadhi: Samatha vs Vipassana 
    
        2011-11-29
            Seven Factors of Enlightenment 
    
        2008-07-12
            Sila with Q&A 
    
        2008-09-27
            Simile Of The Elephant's Foot Print with Q&A #1 
    
        2008-09-27
            Simile Of The Elephant's Foot Print with Q&A #2 
    
        2017-03-10
            Simile of the Wheel: Observation and Adjustment 
    
        2024-07-19
            Skills in Samadhi 
    
        2025-07-19
            Start with a nice day 
    
        2023-07-26
            Talk #10: Reflections on Aspects of Formations 
    
        2023-07-03
            Talk #3: Gradual Training Continued (part 2) 
    
        2023-07-08
            Talk #4: All of Life in One Breath 
    
        2023-07-12
            Talk #6: The Second Tetrad 
    
        2023-07-19
            Talk #8: Anapanasati & Satipatthana Comparisons (Steps 11 & 12) 
    
        2023-07-02
            The Buddha's Teachings to Rahula 
    
        2020-01-27
            The Four Nutrients Of Life 
    
        2018-07-25
            The Simile of the Cloth (Majjhima Nikaya) and The Four Noble Truths in short 
    
        2021-04-09
            The way we start anything will determine its outcome 
    
        2016-06-19
            Time/Kala 
    
        2011-09-24
            Understanding How One Thing Leads To Another 
    
        2011-10-01
            What and Why = Defining Mind and Matter Plus Their Causes 
    
        2017-03-14
            What is Happening 
    
        2008-08-09
            What Path To Take? with Q&A - part 1 
    
        2008-08-09
            What Path To Take? with Q&A - part 2 
    
        2017-03-07
            Why is the Path a Multi-lane Highway? 
    
        2017-03-04
            Why Metta Practice? 
    
        2008-08-16
            Why We Practice - part 1 
    
        2008-08-16
            Why We Practice - part 2 
    
        2008-08-16
            Why We Practice with Q&A - part 2 
    
        2025-07-16
            Wisdom, Panna as the strongest tree 
    
        2015-06-23
            Wise Attention  
    
        2022-12-05
            Wise Attention, Mindfulness,  And Eight Ways to Reflect on Death
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        2008-07-01
            July 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2008-08-01
            August 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2008-09-01
            September 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2008-10-01
            October 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2011-01-04
            Tuesday Talks—2011 
    
        2011-07-01
            July through October 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2015-03-01
            March 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2016-06-14
            Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experien… 
    
        2017-03-01
            March 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2017-05-22
            Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening 
    
        2017-05-22
            Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experien… 
    
        2018-06-21
            Vipassana : d’hier à aujourd’hui 
    
        2018-07-01
            July 2018  at IMS- Forest Refuge 
    
        2019-06-22
            U Jagara 
    
        2020-01-01
            January 2020 
    
        2020-04-05
            Sessions en ligne de méditation et de discussion - Printemps 2020 
    
        2021-04-08
            Practical Emptiness: The Womb of Love and Compassion with Nikki Mirghafori, PhD… 
    
        2022-12-03
            Befriending Mortality: Living an Awakened Life through Mindfulness of Death (Ma… 
    
        2023-07-01
            July 2023 
    
        2024-07-01
            July 2024 
    
        2025-07-01
            July 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
         
        
            
  
         
     
 
    
        
    
	
        
		
			
                
                    
    
      
      
        
           
  2019-07-02 
  Propos sur le dharma
 
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      Comprendre la vie au moyen de l’observation; un monde de perceptions.
     
          
            
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  2019-07-01 
  Méditation de metta
 
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      Metta comme conditionnement de la perception; samatha.
     
          
            
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  2019-07-01 
  Instructions de méditation
 
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      Stabiliser et raffiner l’esprit graduellement, discerner la source de toutes les actions et choisir ce qui est bénéfique.
     
          
            
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  2019-06-30 
  Propos sur le dharma
 
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      Découverte; réponses à des questions sur les phénomènes mentaux et la boule de crystal (voir 29 juin).
     
          
            
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  2019-06-30 
  Instructions de méditation
 
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      Il n’y a pas de mauvaises températures dehors, il n’y a que des gens mal habillés.
     
          
            
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  2019-06-29 
  Méditation de metta
 
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      La boule de crystal comme métaphore du miroir de metta.
     
          
            
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  2019-06-29 
  Propos sur le dharma
 
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      Comprendre la source et la dynamique des perceptions et des phénomènes mentaux.
     
          
            
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